vultureculturecoyote:

Went to a beach after the recent storms in hopes of finding some neat stuff washed up. Turns out the 80ft tall blue clay cliffs don’t hold up well in 25mph winds and weeks of heavy rain. 

We sat around and watched them essentially crumble. Its hard to tell but those muddy boulders are massive. As we walked along the stretch we could occasionally hear cracking and rumbling and would turn around and see huge sections of the cliffs collapse. 

I didnt want to get close to the cliffs for obvious reasons, but stupid me did eventually approach the rubble and OH BOY am I glad I did!! 

The cliffs are full of fossils!! Got a lot of these digging through the rubble. 

Echioceras  Ammonites and 

Cylindroteuthis

belemnite  I THINK. Which puts them around the Jurassic to late Cretaceous?? So thats like 50 to 150 million years old. 

And I’ve never heard of this before but these ones are made of pyrite!!!! They are heavy like metal and shiny. Pictures just dont do them justice. They are like polished metal. They also smell really bad which is weird. 

The one in the middle is about 2 inches long for scale. 

I knew fossils could be made of material other than rock but I didnt think it was common???

We also pulled a “dino egg” out of the mud and cracked it open. Didnt expect whatever this is. 

Some orange/brown crystals?  I didn’t take the geode because it was bigger than my head. 

You’ll want to look up how to care for pyritized fossils, they’ll eventually break down into piles of dust if not. Something about how pyrite exposed to moisture gradually degrades into sulfuric acid, I think? It isn’t harmful to you, but it’ll ruin your fossils eventually. 

Great finds!